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The Extract Command

Thursday, January 18th, 2007 – running time 09:22
Bert demonstrates how to pull things and objects out of an image using Photoshop's Extract Tool.

Bert has made his source files available for this episode available here

Highlights
Wacom ( 0:46, 0:46 ) extract ( 1:00, 1:13, 1:22, 1:47, 1:53, 4:01, 4:03, 1:00, 1:13, 1:22, 1:47, 1:53, 4:01, 4:03 ) screen savers ( 1:03, 1:34, 1:03, 1:34 ) Pinpoint accuracy ( 5:30, 6:11, 5:30, 6:11 ) Wacom ( 0:46, 0:46 ) extract ( 1:00, 1:13, 1:22, 1:47, 1:53, 4:01, 4:03, 1:00, 1:13, 1:22, 1:47, 1:53, 4:01, 4:03 ) screen savers ( 1:03, 1:34, 1:03, 1:34 ) Pinpoint accuracy ( 5:30, 6:11, 5:30, 6:11 )

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" Welcome to another episode pixel perfect would be -- on. Your kinds of Photoshop tricks and have fun. I'm here on my just Wacom and take have a way -- actually work right on the -- of doing this way the only way to work. There is normally train from way back a little kid who has way. Right on the computer. Now we're talking about this segment is the extract command. I did this -- on screen savers and a lot of people have asked about how do you pull things out of of -- image I've done some. Some shows on on alpha channels and adapt but the extract tool is a command that in Photoshop. Now there are third party program that'll do that some of it I'm of them causing more than Photoshop. Extract does come with Photoshop. Are doing -- do something with it and -- how to fix it messes up. Now right now on the screen I haven't eagle -- the image that actually used on the screen savers now the right command. If there's a lot of contrast that there isn't that Eagles head it's gonna work really well. Well that was put out that Eagles and put it somewhere else so. Come appeared to my filters and yet extract is right up there first alternate for the group up top there and say extract. And there it is it brings me into a separate little control window. Whereby first toll of the magic marker which are gonna -- size I'm visiting my open closed bracket keys I could go over here and -- the side. You're going epic size it's big enough it's going to encompass equal amount of foreground and background and in the phrase. That -- right through -- like that right in the middle. And I'm gonna get equal amounts of the background and the foreground going through there. In the -- get the whole part about me that there not a big is very sharp I'm gonna get much smaller brush. And is then outline to be again getting equal amount support going to back not to tell which part one. Once the head -- the background with a little. But Adobe air act click on the part that I want which is the head. That's fit on -- do click okay and you see the head had been extracted. And I can take that head and drag it over into this file over here and put that position replacing guys it. Now we make it look good I'm gonna. It's turnout for second go into the background here and that would my pen tool I'm gonna go in here and select the loophole that he's holding. I disco here and up and down. Here it goes down. Like the poll like that -- ago turned that path into a selection. And say give me a new layer. -- Right there now Apple back. I can go in here and I thought my there's there's -- had a bald -- behind loophole and there. We see that the -- and has been I used to replace the head of the original writer. All well and good but. Now. That's candidates dividends and look at this guy."

" Now he's not so straightforward. Does not have much contrast between him and his background and black area. So what he's gonna take a little work though one thing that's important is it a few notable and I that the eagle because destroyed in the background away. I'm gonna need this guy and we need him -- duplicate the file before extracted and going to go in there and duplicate them have a copy areas. And I go into my extract. To extract. And there is an of course Simonyi a much larger brush here and enlarge my brush. And I'm gonna go in there and around that part of body right -- like that. And bluegrass. Appear on its head. On the side there mountainside here and across the -- like that and again with a bucket of they would part I want inside part. Click okay and while the -- stuff is really all this whole going on in here other -- graphics pretty good but everything else that really messed up. While I put him into the background here. But right here at stake him. And drag that layer and here. And now the thing about him. And put him in position right -- where we want. Now I have to -- and -- it. I might say oh well because you the history brush we can't industry we have that we patent and then there. I could go in there and that's just bigger here at -- damages in here a certain parts I don't want actress I don't want this area here it is the rates that. But any districts in here behind here and that the grass looks fine. That really the grass and this is great this is right into the corner here graph looks good. I'm here and over here but he is completely broken up. Affects them I'm going to use the clone tool that's the two I'm gonna use now what's really important here is. Pinpoint accuracy have to be perfect in register why because and here. The nature -- means it -- to be right on the money. Well that is going to come down and like move over about if not exactly accurate. Look wrong. So I'm going to do -- find a place in this image reckoning that by a single pixel. Zoom in here on the veterans dive right there there -- single pixel rate it. In my original image over here and go in and that famous by the -- that aim high spirited this guy's gotta fix that's divisional behind. I get my clone tool and wanted to duplicate that pinpoint accuracy and -- that the bright side to one pixel. One pixel and makes sure that sample layers and aligned. Definitely aligned -- done. Now holding down my option. Alt and a PC how established that. Alignment come over here to this wildly original and click on that pixel right there. Now -- Mikey come over here and -- Microsoft would be exacting pixel and click. I can see on my screen have a cross someone's patents -- on the other I've just establish that relationship and alignment between tool. On where it cloning from two worth pointing to. Now and come over here and I eight and let's see him open them up here. How will get a much larger brush up on -- And it pick a bunch of the nicest it's 45. That's pretty good at expect -- and look. And cloning for one file over to the other and I'm just going right over these areas that need to be -- Owning or into the and here. Is picking a bad here back up. And pick up a little part of the verdict on laws and been like that and the first year. And various. Completely fixed up. Look at him on screen by himself you know you've got this nice little background the grasses to places in all his her it's doing it should be. That's built it is part of Photoshop it's been there as always -- at work doing it wanted to do I need to do the effects. -- my how I did it. Gotta get that alignment down right on the money so that's what I did a single pixel identified a single pixel loudly to a line to to do it. That's what we do now hoping had a good time there aren't something. These files are on my on the web site went down on the guru pixel code Revision 3 votes that. Pixel perfect files will be therefore if you could try this on your own. You have any ideas of something you'd like to see an Anemia that the -- at revision3.com."

" I won't effect my friends -- godaddy.com. For sponsoring the show doesn't -- and host a website. Give your domain name set up a website even create a website for you godaddy.com and if you go there and get this code. -- VC RT recognized that Bert when leopard out before. Put in that code and it would take an additional 10% off of any purchases you make it over to godaddy.com or your -- these. I hope you had a good time though that the players that's woodland Photoshop is that I don't think of it -- work. I mean it's we have fun in Mexico. At that time."

" It's."

" Welcome to another episode pixel perfect would be -- on. Your kinds of Photoshop tricks and have fun. I'm here on my just Wacom and take have a way -- actually work right on the -- of doing this way the only way to work. There is normally train from way back a little kid who has way. Right on the computer. Now we're talking about this segment is the extract command. I did this -- on screen savers and a lot of people have asked about how do you pull things out of of -- image I've done some. Some shows on on alpha channels and adapt but the extract tool is a command that in Photoshop. Now there are third party program that'll do that some of it I'm of them causing more than Photoshop. Extract does come with Photoshop. Are doing -- do something with it and -- how to fix it messes up. Now right now on the screen I haven't eagle -- the image that actually used on the screen savers now the right command. If there's a lot of contrast that there isn't that Eagles head it's gonna work really well. Well that was put out that Eagles and put it somewhere else so. Come appeared to my filters and yet extract is right up there first alternate for the group up top there and say extract. And there it is it brings me into a separate little control window. Whereby first toll of the magic marker which are gonna -- size I'm visiting my open closed bracket keys I could go over here and -- the side. You're going epic size it's big enough it's going to encompass equal amount of foreground and background and in the phrase. That -- right through -- like that right in the middle. And I'm gonna get equal amounts of the background and the foreground going through there. In the -- get the whole part about me that there not a big is very sharp I'm gonna get much smaller brush. And is then outline to be again getting equal amount support going to back not to tell which part one. Once the head -- the background with a little. But Adobe air act click on the part that I want which is the head. That's fit on -- do click okay and you see the head had been extracted. And I can take that head and drag it over into this file over here and put that position replacing guys it. Now we make it look good I'm gonna. It's turnout for second go into the background here and that would my pen tool I'm gonna go in here and select the loophole that he's holding. I disco here and up and down. Here it goes down. Like the poll like that -- ago turned that path into a selection. And say give me a new layer. -- Right there now Apple back. I can go in here and I thought my there's there's -- had a bald -- behind loophole and there. We see that the -- and has been I used to replace the head of the original writer. All well and good but. Now. That's candidates dividends and look at this guy."

" Now he's not so straightforward. Does not have much contrast between him and his background and black area. So what he's gonna take a little work though one thing that's important is it a few notable and I that the eagle because destroyed in the background away. I'm gonna need this guy and we need him -- duplicate the file before extracted and going to go in there and duplicate them have a copy areas. And I go into my extract. To extract. And there is an of course Simonyi a much larger brush here and enlarge my brush. And I'm gonna go in there and around that part of body right -- like that. And bluegrass. Appear on its head. On the side there mountainside here and across the -- like that and again with a bucket of they would part I want inside part. Click okay and while the -- stuff is really all this whole going on in here other -- graphics pretty good but everything else that really messed up. While I put him into the background here. But right here at stake him. And drag that layer and here. And now the thing about him. And put him in position right -- where we want. Now I have to -- and -- it. I might say oh well because you the history brush we can't industry we have that we patent and then there. I could go in there and that's just bigger here at -- damages in here a certain parts I don't want actress I don't want this area here it is the rates that. But any districts in here behind here and that the grass looks fine. That really the grass and this is great this is right into the corner here graph looks good. I'm here and over here but he is completely broken up. Affects them I'm going to use the clone tool that's the two I'm gonna use now what's really important here is. Pinpoint accuracy have to be perfect in register why because and here. The nature -- means it -- to be right on the money. Well that is going to come down and like move over about if not exactly accurate. Look wrong. So I'm going to do -- find a place in this image reckoning that by a single pixel. Zoom in here on the veterans dive right there there -- single pixel rate it. In my original image over here and go in and that famous by the -- that aim high spirited this guy's gotta fix that's divisional behind. I get my clone tool and wanted to duplicate that pinpoint accuracy and -- that the bright side to one pixel. One pixel and makes sure that sample layers and aligned. Definitely aligned -- done. Now holding down my option. Alt and a PC how established that. Alignment come over here to this wildly original and click on that pixel right there. Now -- Mikey come over here and -- Microsoft would be exacting pixel and click. I can see on my screen have a cross someone's patents -- on the other I've just establish that relationship and alignment between tool. On where it cloning from two worth pointing to. Now and come over here and I eight and let's see him open them up here. How will get a much larger brush up on -- And it pick a bunch of the nicest it's 45. That's pretty good at expect -- and look. And cloning for one file over to the other and I'm just going right over these areas that need to be -- Owning or into the and here. Is picking a bad here back up. And pick up a little part of the verdict on laws and been like that and the first year. And various. Completely fixed up. Look at him on screen by himself you know you've got this nice little background the grasses to places in all his her it's doing it should be. That's built it is part of Photoshop it's been there as always -- at work doing it wanted to do I need to do the effects. -- my how I did it. Gotta get that alignment down right on the money so that's what I did a single pixel identified a single pixel loudly to a line to to do it. That's what we do now hoping had a good time there aren't something. These files are on my on the web site went down on the guru pixel code Revision 3 votes that. Pixel perfect files will be therefore if you could try this on your own. You have any ideas of something you'd like to see an Anemia that the -- at revision3.com."

" I won't effect my friends -- godaddy.com. For sponsoring the show doesn't -- and host a website. Give your domain name set up a website even create a website for you godaddy.com and if you go there and get this code. -- VC RT recognized that Bert when leopard out before. Put in that code and it would take an additional 10% off of any purchases you make it over to godaddy.com or your -- these. I hope you had a good time though that the players that's woodland Photoshop is that I don't think of it -- work. I mean it's we have fun in Mexico. At that time."